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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






2. What is the function of vitamin C?






3. What is normal BMI?






4. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






5. What type of people need extra protein?






6. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






7. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






8. What are healthy sources of fats?






9. What foods have high quality protein?






10. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






11. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






12. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






13. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






14. Sources of fats






15. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






16. What is normal albumin levels?






17. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






18. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






19. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






20. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






21. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






22. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






23. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






24. Name six sources of grains






25. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






26. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






27. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






28. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






29. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






30. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






31. What does DASH stand for?






32. When does BMR decrease?






33. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






34. What is the function of vitamin E?






35. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






36. What function is vitamin D?






37. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






38. What is RDA of protein?






39. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






40. How many calories/gram is protein?






41. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






42. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






43. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






44. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






45. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






46. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






47. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






48. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






49. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






50. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?